Lavatory and means for supporting same.



No. 847,018. PATENTED MAR. 12, 199,71. J. MADDOCK. LAVATORY AND MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17. 1906.

' Inventor:

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JOHN MADDOCK, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

LAVATORY AND MEANS FDR SUPPORTING SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed May 17, 1906. Serial No. 317.406.

To all, whom, it Huey concern: 1 Be it known that I, JOHN MAnpooK, a citizen of the United States of America, and l a resident of Trenton, county of Mercer, in 5 the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lava- 2 tories and Means for Supporting Same, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in 1 1o lavatories and means for supporting them from a wall without the employment of floorsupports.

Lavatories as composed of earthenware or other ceramic material moldedto a desired 1 5 form are necessarily bodies having considerable weight, and it is therefore usual to support them in position by means of uprights or other supports standing upwardly from the floor. Sometimes, however, it is desir- 2o able to dispense with floor-supports, as for 4 the utilization .of the floor-space beneath. the lavatory or to avoid the effect or appearance thereof.

It is particularly desirable in the form of 2 5 lavatory which comprises a part of this application that its supports should beobscured from view, whereby the effect is produced of a lavatory of suitable design jutting from a wall without any observable supporting 0 means.

The particular form of lavatory which I have illustrated herein comprises a bowl having a short skirting inclosing a portion thereof at its front and sides and having an inte- 35 gral u standing back extending from the edge 0 said bowl, said skirting and back being prevented from twisting or becoming misshapen in the firing process by being onlar ed and for the sake of lightness rendered 4o hol ow.

Means are provided at the rear of the lavatory for seating the latter upon the horizontal flange of an angle-iron, Wlrose vertical flange is to be secured to the wall against 4 5 which the back of the lavatory is placed, While an adjustable bracket is secured to the wall below the lavatory, jutting outwardly at an upward inclination to form a base-suport.

5 p In the drawings accompanying this application, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved lavatory. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, showing the su porting means. 3 is a detail of a modi ed form 5 5 of base-support, and Fig. 4 is a partial de ail bottom view of a supporting enlargement at the rear of the lavatory.

In said figures the letter a indicates the )owl of a lavatory having a top plate a, an enlarged hollow peripheral edge a", a skirting I), having a hollow enlarged edge I) depending from said edge a? and extending about the front and sides of the bowl. Extending upwardly from the rear of the plate a is an integral back (1, whose sides and top are provided with a hollow enlargement a, forming their edge, said enlargement ct continuing from the enlargement c At the rear of the lavatory is a hollow enlargement (L5, running transversely thereof, the base of said en argement having a number of keyhole-slots a.

I provide an angle-iron, as c, to carry the lavatory, the horizontal flange of said angleiron serving as a seat for enlargement a hose basc rests thereon, while the upright flange of said angle-iron is secured, as by screws 0, to a wall (Z. Bolts, as e, entered within the slots 0 serve to secure the lavatory upon the angle-iron. While the angleiron aforesaid serves to support the lavatory in a vertical direction, it is obvious that the forward weight of the lavatory, if otherwise unsupported, would cause it to sag downwardly toward the wall. "i hcrcfore I provide a stay-bracket, f, which extends at an upward inclination from its base-platef, the latter being adapted to be secured against the wall (Z. Said stay-bracket as placed below the lavatory, being secured to the wall, extends up\\"ardly to meet the rear lower edge of the lavatory, which latter is provided with a socket, as (L7, to receive the outer end of said stay-brackett The stay-bracket is rendered adjustable in length in order that it may be made to exactly bridge the space between the lavatory and wall and to adequately reinforce the support aflorded by the angle-iron. To this end I form the staybracket in two parts, one being threaded into the other and the outer part, asf by reason of its screw connection being axially movable. By this means, the bracket being secured to the wall, it may be extended outwardly into such close and pressure-like contact with the lavatory as may be deemed desirable.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a modified form of stay-bracket, the same consisting of a yoke g, adapted to straddle a waste or other pipe which might be in the way of the centrallyplate, a rear, hollow enlargement to seat disposed bracket f, the upper central portion upon a wall-support, and a lower seat for an of said yoke having a threaded aperture in i inclined stay-bracket. which is placed a screw-rod g, whose end is 2. A lavatory adapted to be supported intended to impinge against the lavatory as from a wall, said lavatory having a rear seata support therefor and may be provided with I in'g portion, an angle-iron adapted to be sea rubber or other yielding cushion, as g l cured to the wall and to support the lavatory The bracket 9 has inclined base-plates g g to l by its rear seating portion, and an inclined permit of its being secured to the wall (1. Y extensible stay-bracket adapted to be se- I claim cured to the wall below said angle-iron, and 1. A lavatory in integral form comprising to have an additional support for said lavaabowl and top plate withahollow peripheral tory by impinging against the latter at a enlargement, a short skirting depending i point below said seating portion. therefrom and extending about the front and Signed at New York city this 16th day of sides of the bowl, the edge of said skirting May, 1906. having a hollow peripheral enlargement, a JOHN MADDOCK. back extending upwardly from said top plate W'itnesses: with a hollow, peripheral enlargement conj NAT B. CHADsEY, tinuing from the enlargement about said top i F. W. BARKER. 

